Moravian Book Shop best-sellers: Paperback fiction

"The Secret Life of Violent Grant" is among the top paperback fiction bestsellers at Moravian Book

THE SECRET LIFE OF VIOLET GRANT

By Beatriz Williams (Berkley, $16)

New from the author of "A Hundred Summers," comes a story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe. Fresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy Fifth Avenue family to work at cutthroat metropolitan magazine. This is 1964, and the editor dismisses her…until a parcel lands on Vivian's Greenwich Village doorstep that starts a journey into the life of an aunt she never knew, who might give her just the story she's been waiting for. Fifty years later, her Aunt Violet's ultimate fate remains shrouded in mystery but Violet's secret life is about to collide with hers.

WHISKEY & CHARLIE

By Annabel Smith (Sourcebooks,$14.99)

Whiskey and Charlie might have come from the same family, but they'd tell you two completely different stories about growing up. Whiskey is everything Charlie is not — bold, daring, carefree — and Charlie blames his twin brother for always stealing the limelight. When Charlie hears that Whiskey has been in a terrible accident and has slipped into a coma, Charlie can't make sense of it. Who is he without Whiskey? A compelling and unforgettable novel about rivalry and redemption, "Whiskey & Charlie" is perfect for anyone whose family has ever been less than perfect.

THE DIRECTOR

By David Ignatius (Norton, $16.95)

Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it's drawn, "The Director" is a maze of double dealing, exploring a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones - and nothing can be trusted.